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The former owner of the Chicago Rush arena football team can live on house arrest at a friend's Gold Coast apartment while he awaits trial on fraud charges stemming from his ill-fated purchase of the team last year, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

David Staral Jr., whose ownership of the now-defunct Rush ended in embarrassing fashion after just three months, was arrested Monday morning at his mother's house in Kenosha on charges of bankruptcy fraud and wire fraud.

At a bond hearing Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Geraldine Soat Brown said Staral's release from custody raised some "definite red flags," in particular the fact that he was still on probation for a theft...

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The former owner of the Chicago Rush arena football team can live on house arrest at a friend's Gold Coast apartment while he awaits trial on fraud charges stemming from his ill-fated purchase of the team last year, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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